Have a look at this SO question. It explains all the packaging methods very well, and might help answer your question to some extent: Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2? Distutils is still the standard tool for packaging in Python. It is included in the standard library (Python 2 and Python 3.0 to 3.3). … Read more
Yes, pyproject.toml is the specified file format of PEP 518 which contains the build system requirements of Python projects. This solves the build-tool dependency chicken and egg problem, i.e. pip can read pyproject.toml and what version of setuptools or wheel one may need. If you need a setup.py for an editable install, you could use … Read more
Über is the German word for above or over (it’s actually cognate with the English over). Hence, in this context, an uber-jar is an “over-jar”, one level up from a simple JAR (a), defined as one that contains both your package and all its dependencies in one single JAR file. The name can be thought … Read more
You can do this using the maven-assembly plugin with the “jar-with-dependencies” descriptor. Here’s the relevant chunk from one of our pom.xml’s that does this: <build> <plugins> <!– any other plugins –> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>single</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <descriptorRefs> <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef> </descriptorRefs> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build>
As of May 2022, most of the other answers to this question are several years out-of-date. When you come across advice on Python packaging issues, remember to look at the date of publication, and don’t trust out-of-date information. The Python Packaging User Guide is worth a read. Every page has a “last updated” date displayed, … Read more